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The veteran LGBT activist is fighting for an Assembly seat in California, but she faces tough opposition from a current representative who moved into her district and who is backed by Speaker John Perez.

Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, imagining that the author would find cause for hope—and dismay—in today's political culture.

Yes, the NRA and ALEC pushed pro-gun bills, but they were helped in many instances by Democrats too afraid to take on one of the culture war’s signal issues.

The texting, globe-trotting secretary of state has become the Post-Teen Choice Favorite. But memification carries its own pitfalls.

It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.

How some Republican are transforming a conspiracy theory into a policy position.

The unstoppable legacy of the war on terror.

The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

Joachim Gauck could offer too striking a contrast to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own devotion to a politics of small compromises. 

How the politics of the super-rich became American politics.